September 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Chag Sameach!

Another week, another holiday. Here's wishing my readers a chag sameach! I will not be blogging until Tuesday nigh...

From Ian: Egypt’s Christians, facing the fate of Egyptian Jews "After the Egyptian military took power in the country 1952, it started its campaign against Egyptian Jews, launching its propaganda against Jews in all the state-owned media. It freed all the terrorists who had committed violence against Jews before the coup, and jailed liberals and seculars instead. It encouraged aggression toward the Egyptian Jewish minority, which led to new terrorist...

Even though the ISM, Free Gaza Movement and others keep refusing to place any blame on Egypt for Gaza's economic isolation, Hamas knows when it makes sense to put some pressure on their fellow Islamists. This morning, Hamas held a protest rally in Rafah against Egypt's closure of some smuggling tunnels and to try to convince Egypt to allow a free-trade zone in Rafah which...

The Hamas-affiliated Palestine Times has a photo essay of a Saturday parade in Gaza by the Saladin Brigades of the PRC: The parade was for the 12th anniversary of the terror group. Even the PRC website doesn't have all photos. Since no one can march in Gaza without Hamas permission, and no one can import weapons without Hamas permission, the only conclusion...

Gee, I hope this Palestinian Lebanese cleric doesn't get an aneurysm

From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an interview with Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout, head of the Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon, which aired on Mayadeen TV on September 7, 2012. Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout: I say to myself, to the Islamic scholars, to the Muslims themselves, and to the viewers all over the world – from north to south, and from east to west: Oh Muslims, unite! Unite! Unite! Unity is the key to your strength, while disintegration...

The latest Hamas "work accident:" Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades (E.Q.B) the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, mourned on Sunday morning, September 30th, 2012, the death of the Qassam member Mohammed Abdullah Hamad,22, from Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Central Gaza Strip. The Brigades confirmed in a press statement released on Sunday morning, that the...

Saturday night links

From Ian: Anti-Semitism in left-wing online media Articles critical of Israel are a magnet for anti-Semites and are used as a vehicle to express their Jew-hatred. "The second factor is the growing social acceptability of anti-Semitism when it is cloaked as anti-Zionism. Support for the Palestinians and opposition to Israel has become a part of the orthodoxy of the contemporary political Left. The Left prides itself on its progressive, anti-racist...

Egyptian cleric involved in new constitution wants girls to marry at 14

From Bikya Masr: An Egyptian cleric and member of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution has said that girls 14-years-old are permitted to have sexual relations under Islam and has proposed reducing the marriage age limit as a result. “It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry,” Yassir Barhami said in discussing a woman’s...

From Al Arabiya: As political tensions mount between neighboring Syria and Turkey, newly-leaked Syrian intelligence documents obtained by Al Arabiya disclose shocking claims shedding light on the dreadful fate of two Turkish Air Force pilots. Contrary to what was publically claimed, the documents reveal that the pilots survived the crash, but were later executed by the...

Administrivia - I hit my 15,000th post

I wasn't keeping track, but this "Work accident!" post from Wednesday was my 15,000th post on this blog. Which is sort of...crazy. Cool, but crazy. My 10,000th post was in February 2011; my 5000th in November 2008. I have had dozens of other "work accident' posts documenting Arab terrorists blowing themselves up over the years. In 2007 and 2008 I even had...

From Ian: LATMA: The media's math and Egypt's honor Hamas announces boycott of Barcelona FC following Shalit invite Despite mounting pressure, soccer team invites one-time prisoner to October match against Real Madrid “Hamas on Thursday announced a media boycott of Barcelona after the leader of the Spanish soccer league gave a complimentary ticket for an upcoming match...

Saudi women defend polygamy

Saudi logic! In Saudi Arabia, polygamy appears to be a solution for women increasingly worried about spinsterhood which is seen as associated with a “shortage” of men. “Saudi men travel a lot and live abroad for long times. This makes them forget about marriage altogether,” Professor of sociology Ibrahim al-Anzi was quoted as saying by al-Sharq newspaper. Left with few options, girls increasingly accept to be second wives, he said. “When a girl...

Today's Arab media anti-semitism

Iraqi newspaper Nasiriyah has an article by someone named Osama Mubarak that reflects how many, many Arabs (and anti-semitic Westerners) think: The world community competes to find new scientific inventions to benefit mankind, and help us in everyday life. Not surprisingly, Israel is the only entity in the world that invented things that worry and haunt the rest of the world. In the past they invented the so-called Holocaust and physically blackmailed...

From Egypt Independent: A report was referred to the Public Funds Prosecution on Thursday accusing President Mohamed Morsy of profiting from his position and giving unfair advantage to business figures who are members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Saeed Mohamed Abdullah, founder of the Independent Association to Fight Corruption, filed a report to the public prosecutor accusing...

Arab "intellectual" says ancient Jews never lived in Israel - but in Yemen

From Ad Dostour (Jordan): Dr. Fadel al-Rubaie denied any relationship of any kind between the Torah and Palestine, stressing that the names, places and events that came in the Torah are Yemeni names and locations, and some still exist even today. He denies strongly that Joshua Ben-Nun had crossed the Jordan River to Jericho, and inscriptions and figures available indicate that Joshua Ben-Nun actually traveled to the land of Yemen. This was all...

A video to make Israel-haters' heads explode

And one that makes Israel-lovers' feet tap: (h/t Richard)...

PalArabs underwhelmed by Abbas' lackluster hate speech

Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the UN yesterday was notable for being - boring. Filled with the usual lies and hate, the speech was an extended fact-challenged rant about the evils of Israel with barely a passing mention about Hamas, which controls 40% of his supposed people. Some lines were almost laughable for their obvious hypocrisy: Our people will continue to build the institutions of their State and will continue to strive to achieve national...

Report: 16 year old Egyptian girl shot dead after resisting groping

From Egypt Independent: It is a sordid tale: A 16-year-old girl is groped while walking along the street. She responds by spitting in her attacker’s face, vowing to take back her rights. He, in turn, guns her down with an automatic weapon. That is what is alleged to have happened to Eman Mostafa two weeks ago in a small village in Upper Egypt’s Assiut Governorate. While details of the incident have only slowly trickled out, the monstrosity of the...

Why should Juan Cole do research when he can just make facts up?

A classic example of how third-rate academics do their work: One of the few contemporary examples of settler colonialism is that of Israelis in the Palestinian West Bank. The number of Palestinians who have died from infant mortality, poor health conditions and lack of sanitation, loss of farms and other property and attendant penury, and other ill effects of the Israeli expulsion of their families in 1948 and 1967 and then occupation and colonization...

Bibi's speech to the UN (video and text)

Here is the text of Binyamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN today: It's a pleasure to see the General Assembly presided by the Ambassador from Israel, and it's good to see all of you, distinguished delegates. Ladies and Gentlemen, Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem. I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region and that it will soon disappear. Throughout...

Thursday links

From Ian: It won't be the end of the world if Israel strikes Iran “Whatever view we take of a nuclear-armed Iran and Israel’s right to self-defence, the alarmist argument constantly invoked – fear of a wider conflagration – simply isn’t credible We point out once again that the current crisis amounts merely to a theoretic armchair discussion for most Western commentators. For Israel, however, the bellicose threats (and words must have consequences)...